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TOPEKA- An audit was provoked due to Republican suspicion on equity programs of state public universities, which found that $ $ 9 million was used in state dollars during 20222–2023 school year.
On Wednesday, Heidi Zimmerman, Principal Auditor of Cancer Legislative Division of Post Audit, gave an audit results to a bipartisan committee of MPs in view of university expenses on diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
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Zimramanan warned the MPs that the lack of an overroaching deeh definition with self-reported data from universities could diagram the results.
“The accuracy of this information depends on whether universities have reported us completely and accurately,” Jimraman said. “Additionally, we cannot ensure complete stability in universities because they do not all think about DII at all the same way.”
Rape. Steven Howe, a Salina Republican who has urged the law that banned the right practices, requested the audit. Howe claims that the DEI initiative may give rise to “loped” universities, with a “some ideology” priority.
Dei is usually understood as a broader organizational structure that historically wants to give voice to minimal groups, such as races, gender and sexual identification.
While most education officials support practice at all levels of learning, Republican has opposed it at a state and national level, after positive action and tendency to reject the important race theory.
Augusta Republican, Rape Christie Williams said that state universities should make all students “valuable”.
Williams said, “I will challenge my universities to reach all students and make sure that they all feel equally valuable, and that we are not only looking at a particular group, but we are seeing all the students because all the students are weak at any time.”
In the 2022-2023 school year, six state universities of Kansas spent an estimated $ 9 million in state funding for DEI-related training, staffing and other services. However, because there is no state law or a definition of Board of Regents that should be considered dei, universities included a wide range of activities under the umbrella.
For the deadline, six universities reported a total spending of a total of $ 45 million on DEI-related activities, including 510 equivalent equivalent DEI-related posts, and costs for 202 DEI-related training on subjects such as sexual harassment, oppression, anti-eclass and disability inclusion. Other costs included scholarships and workshops.
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Rape. Jason Probest, a Hachinson Democrat, carried forward his understanding of Dei as a biological outflow of cultural change.
“I was thinking about the passage of the Disabled Act of the Americans,” Probest said. “At that point, if a college incorporates any accessibility option in its campus, it will be under this broad definition, part of Dei. We would not have labeled it in the 80s, but it will be an organic outreach of that. ,
Zimraman said that some services included support groups for students for students to meet services for students with similar backgrounds, food pantry, outreach programs and tuition as well as veterans and first generation college students.
“Some universities told us that DEI activities are activities that improve access to higher education for all students,” Zimraman said. “Others told us that DEE activities create a university culture that gives importance to the difference and related. … He reported a variety of services. ,
Zimmarman reported a total expenditure of $ 45 million in the total expenditure of about 2% universities in the 2023 school year.
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